Officers on bridge of the auxiliary Cruiser SMS Möwe, homeward bound from raiding activities in the Atlantic, during winter of 1916. Small ice floes seen around the wake of the Moewe. As they approach Germany, an armed fishing steamer signals them to halt at once. View of the fishing steamer. A motor launch also approaches the Möwe through ice strewn waters. Numerous prisoners taken by the SMS Möwe are assembled on deck of ship. Her Captain, Count Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien, addresses his crew and then salutes them as he prepares to board the motor launch to report onshore. view of the Count standing aboard the motor launch as it makes way in the harbor. Later, Admiral Reinhard Scheer, Commander of the High Seas Fleet, comes aboard the Möwe to congratulate its Captain and crew for their successes. He is seen addressing them and then exchanging salutes with Count Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Documentary titled 'Deutschland Erwache' recounts Germany's wartime experiences. Explosion seen as the Nazi Swastika emblem is blown up on top of the Zeppelintribüne (at Zeppelinfeld) at the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg in 1945 by the U.S. Army. Following explosion, the pieces from the destroyed emblem fall from the sky. Montage shows: German Prisoners Of War (POWs) marching; Ratification of the German surrender documents (from surrender two days earlier at Reims) held at Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin, Germany on May 9, 1945. German officers present include Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff from the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. They are seen entering room and signing documents. View of Keitel signing the surrender document. Soviet Russian General looking at surrender documents. General Eisenhower, General Montgomery and others shown in brief glimpses. Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta. Aerial views of heavily bomb-damaged cities in Germany, including wrecked German cities of Cologne, Nuremberg, Hamburg, and Berlin. View of Brandenburg gate in background and rubble of bombing in foreground as two people carry a stretcher down the street. A wrecked street sign for the Unter Den Linden lies on the ground partially covered in mud. Ground level views of smoking ruined buildings in Berlin and a few German citizens walking on the streets following Battle of Berlin. Views of dead German soldiers on a battlefield. German soldiers helping to carry and tend to wounded and bandaged German soldiers. Large group of German citizens gathered in a public square.
Truck convoy of British troops moving across desert in North Africa, during World War 2. Light observation planes fly low overhead. British troops load a disabled tank aboard a flat bed truck while shellsl burst all around them during the operation. Brief view of British paratroopers seated inside a transport aircraft. British troops refueling and rearming a tank. A large number of German and Italian prisoners of war are assembled under British guard, in the desert.
A group of Soviet guerrillas infiltrate a German-held area in Western Russia. The guerrillas target a railroad bridge. Two sentries on the railroad bridge are by guerrilla snipers. The guerrillas capture the bridge and plant demolition charges on it. The bridge is blown up. The guerrillas attack a German-occupied village. Guerrillas advance ahead firing their machine guns, rifles and mortars . They advance through the wrecked village and inspect a captured Beute Somua tank. Many dead German soldiers are seen. The guerillas apprehend Gernan troops hidden in various places, including under hay-bales. They take them as prisoners. Women and children villagers emerge from an underground shelter and welcome the Russian guerrillas. Back at their base, a Soviet officer awards medals to the guerrillas for their bravery. A Soviet music teacher returns to the burned out remains of her home, in which bones of dead are seen.
The joint force assault by the American Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force against Japanese on Garapan, the capital city of Saipan in the Mariana Islands, during World War 2. U.S. artillery guns are fired at Japanese forces. U.S. troops carry their injured men under cover of a tank. Rockets are fired to take down enemy snipers. Incendiary grenades are fired to smoke the enemies out of their pillboxes. A Japanese soldier is taken as prisoner.
The Santo Tomas concentration camp in Manila, Philippine Islands during World War II. A crowd gathers in front of a building. The crowd applauds. Soldiers stand at attention. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur comes out of the building. A Japanese headquarters building. A guard seated on a truck in front of the building. The observation tower top of a building. The town of Santo Tomas. Repatriated, liberated Allied prisoners seated in front of shacks. A child drinks canned milk. The mother holds the glass. Men and women have drinks. Three children drink milk from a glass.
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